Islands in the City - West Indian Migration to New York : West Indian Migration to New York

Acknowledgments vii Introduction. West Indian Migration to New York: An Overview 1(22) Nancy Foner PART I. GENDER, WORK, AND RESIDENCE 23(92) Early-Twentieth-Century Caribbean Women: Migration and Social Networks in New York City 25(27) Irma Watkins-Owens Where New York's West Indians Work 52(29) Suzanne Model West Indians and the Residential Landscape of New York 81(34) Kyle D. Crowder Lucky M. Tedrow PART II. TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES 115(46) Transnational Social Relations and the Politics of National Identity: An Eastern Caribbean Case Study 117(25) Linda Basch New York as a Locality in a Global Family Network 142(19) Karen Fog Olwig PART III. RACE, ETHNICITY, AND THE SECOND GENERATION 161(96) ``Black Like Who?'' Afro-Caribbean Immigrants, African Americans, and the Politics of Group Identity 163(30) Reuel Rogers Growing Up West Indian and African American: Gender and Class Differences in the Second Generation 193(23) Mary C. Waters Experiencing Success: Structuring the Perception of Opportunities for West Indians 216(21) Vilna F. Bashi Bobb Averil Y. Clarke Tweaking a Monolith: The West Indian Immigrant Encounter with ``Blackness'' 237(20) Milton Vickerman Conclusion. Invisible No More? West Indian Americans in the Social Scientific Imagination 257(20) Philip Kasinitz References 277(20) Notes on Contributors 297(4) Index 301